Showing posts with label famous quotes about fathers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label famous quotes about fathers. Show all posts

Monday, June 15, 2009

Fun and Funny Quotes for Father's Day...



Fun and Funny Quotes for Father's Day

"If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated,
let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any
fathering situation, he has a fifty-percent chance of being right."
- Bill Cosby
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"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most
is "soap-on-a-rope."
- Bill Cosby
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"I'm so ugly, my father carries around a picture of the kid who
came with his wallet."
- Rodney Dangerfield
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“A father carries pictures where his money used to be.”
- Author Unknown
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"A father is a banker provided by nature."
- A French Proverb
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"Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents."
- Margaret Mead
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"It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder,
and violence every single day should be avoided entirely,
but the desire to beget children is a natural urge."
- Phyllis Diller
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"When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon,
'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered,
'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.'"
- Jerry Lewis
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"When Charles first saw our child Mary,
he said all the proper things for a new father.
He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted,
'She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge.'"
- Helen Hayes
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"Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you
at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby
on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up
home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain,
you gotta call the game and start all over again."
- Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby
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"Every mother generally hopes that her daughter
will snag a better husband than she managed to do...
but she's certain that her boy will never get as great
a wife as his father did."
- Author Unknown
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"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to
look like his father."
- Gabriel Garcia Márquez


Sunday, June 14, 2009

Quotes and a Verse for Father's Day...





Quotes and a Verse for Father's Day

"Honor thy father and thy mother."
- Matthew 19:19
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"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
- William Shakespeare
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"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand
to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
- Mark Twain
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"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."
- George Herbert
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"Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance."
- Ruth E. Renkel
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"Any man can be a father but it takes someone special to be a dad."
- Anne Geddes
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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry."
- A Jewish Proverb
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"Are we not like two volumes of one book?"
- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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"One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God,
Make me the kind of man my daddy is. Later that night, the father
prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be."
- Author Unknown
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"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for
a father's protection."
- Sigmund Freud
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"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to
love their mother."
- Henry Ward Beecher
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"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right,
he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."
- Charles Wadsworth
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"It doesn't matter who my father was;
it matters who I remember he was."
- Anne Sexton





Idea: I will be posting fun and funny dad quotes tomorrow.
Why not print out these quotes and/or tomorrow's and tuck
into your dad's card for Father's Day. Val =)